North American culture prizes speed and accumulation over ritual and reverence, leaving us anxious. Slowing down and building ritual into daily life creates calm and control, especially when you trust the people around you.
And so we've kind of lost that in North America as we accumulated more and more and more and more. More is better. Faster is better in our culture. And if we can slow down and think about ritual, there's reverence, there's honor. It's not a rushed thing. And so if we can embed that kind of feeling in how we live, we're naturally going to be calmer and feel more in control. Even if we're not in control of everything, we're going to feel that sense of I've got things. And if I don't have things, I can trust people around me do.
